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May 2021
8:50pm, 20 May 2021
30,905 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
I kept wicket once as well...we were playing an inter class game so I wasn't allowed to bowl and batted at the end being in the school team. One batsman hooked the ball and it hit me square on the forehead.
I actually saw stars just like a Beano cartoon.
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May 2021
9:20pm, 20 May 2021
14,855 posts
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NDWDave
A lad has joined my team at work and is a wicket keeper. Should I be worried? Seems normally in all other respects of his job
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May 2021
9:25pm, 20 May 2021
30,906 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
They are different. Nuts. Talk the hind legs off of Donkeys. Must be the centre of everything. Their brains think of nothing else.
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May 2021
5:34am, 21 May 2021
3,086 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
May well call you fella/buddy/mate/pal despite never having met you
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May 2021
7:45am, 21 May 2021
24,459 posts
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Nicholls595
If his nickname is "Flipper", he probably isn't very good.
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May 2021
9:39am, 21 May 2021
3,087 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
Or cymbals
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May 2021
9:46am, 21 May 2021
24,468 posts
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Nicholls595
We nick named the Nuthall 2nd XI keeper "Flipper" back in the 90's. Chap called Dave Proudfoot*, lovely bloke, lousy keeper. Some one once described him taking the ball as like watching a sealion clapping. It took a long time before he realised that Flipper was a dolphin, not a sealion, but by then the name had stuck. Unlike most catches.
* I know, feel free to make your own jokes
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May 2021
11:37am, 21 May 2021
126,900 posts
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GregP
Genius 
Crap nicknames based on misassumptions are great. The pub near my office in my last City job was called The Red Herring, but was known to one and all as Le Poulet Rouge because nobody knew the French for herring but Andy Wilson (nice bloke, from Leicester) thought 'poulet' was fish. Once the mistake was revealed the pub became known as CHICKEN OF DEATH
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May 2021
11:38am, 21 May 2021
126,901 posts
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GregP
[nope. I don't understand either, and I was there]
Warks 166ao
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May 2021
11:40am, 21 May 2021
24,470 posts
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Nicholls595
I have ever told you how the Nuthall 1st XI keeper from the same era got nick named "Nicky no movement"?
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